Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 15

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[edit] Births

• 1856 - L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919) (pictured)
• 1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
• 1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
• 1909 - James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1926 - Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)
• 1926 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright

[edit] Deaths

• 1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
• 1924 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
• 1948 - Father Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
• 1967 - Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)